Jonathan
Newell received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Ph.D. in Physiology. Before joining the Biomedical Engineering department at
Rensselaer, he served for two years in the Peace Corps in Electric Power
Engineering and also gained two years of industrial
experience at Raytheon. Jon is pleased to report that he has successfully
kept his tongue out of electrical sockets ever since, a direct result of his
stint in the Peace Corps.

He was an investigator for 20 years in the
Trauma Research Center at the Albany Medical Center, conducting clinical
research into the physiological consequences and complications of injury or
trauma. He has investigated basic physiological regulation of the pulmonary
circulation and gas exchange and was awarded the Clinical Engineering
Achievement Award by the Association for advancement of Medical
Instrumentation in 1984. He has also been a reviewer of grants for research
and training in Biomedical Engineering for the National Institute of Health,
the National Science Foundation, and the Whitaker Foundation. In 1993, he won
the William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award. He and his colleagues were
awarded the 1993 Computerworld/Smithsonian Award in Medicine. In 1998, he won
RPI's Darrin Counselling Award.

For the last twenty years he and his
colleagues have brought a high degree of technological sophistication to the
bedside of the critically ill, in addition to their rapier wit. They have
developed and implemented algorithms for real time Electrical Impedance
Imaging of the thorax, and the breast.